Garment-hook.



J. P. WILLIAMS.

GARMENT HOOK.

AIfPLIGATION FILED JAN.15, 1909.

1 83,314, Patented Jan.6,1914.

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UNITED srnrns PATENT carton JAMES P. WILLIAMS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE DE LONG HOOK AND EYE COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 6, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES P. WVILLIAMs, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment- Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in garment hooks of the character of the hook shown in the patent to Frank E. De Long, No. 864,231, and it has for its object to provide a hook of this character in which the thread or other fastening means employed to secure the bill end portion of the hook to a garment or other article, may pass between the bill and the spring stop, intermediate the bill and the shank of the hook, without danger of being caught before it arrives at a position in contact with the hook to hold it in place.

In the practice of sewing the bill end portion of a hook to a garment or other article, the thread usually is carried successively underneath the bill of the hook and between the same and the spring stop and if in any way or by any means the thread is at times caught and prevented from traveling to the place to which it is intended to carry it, considerable annoyance and delay result.

A further object of my invention is to so dispose one of the ends of the wire that it may be carried forwardly of the hook between the wires.

Other objects and advantages of my invention will appear from the detailed description of my invention.

A convenient embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

The novel features of this and other embodiments which come within the scope of my invention I have endeavored to point out with particularity in the appended claim.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a top plan view of a hook embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; and Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings :1 designates the bill of the hook which is formed by bending a wire as indicated at 2 and it is preferably flattened as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. The portions of the wire are bent to form the bend or bight 3 and are extended to form the shank which consists of two wires arranged in parallel relation to each other in the usual manner and the said shank wires are extended to form the thread bends 6 and 7. The inner portion of the wire of one of the thread bends 7 in the construction as illustrated, is extended forwardly and upwardly as indicated at 8 toward the bill 1 of the hook to form a rise or spring stop 10 immediately below the bill of the hook. From this point the wire is extended downwardly as indicated at 11 and is again bent at 12 and extendedunderneath the wires of the shank of the hook. The wire is again bent at 13 and is extended upwardly to a point in contact with or near to the rise 10. At this point it is bent downwardly indicated at 14 and is extended forwardly between the wires constituting the shank of the hook as clearly shown in the drawings. In the construction shown, the wire is shown as being carried forwardly between the shank wires and around the bend or bight 3 of the hook to a point 15 between the wires of the bill of the hook.

It will be understood, however, that the wire may be terminated before it reaches the bend or bight 3, or within the region of the said bend or bight, or it may be extended farther along between the wires constituting the bill of the hook as desired.

By my invention I secure a construction of hook which not only possesses the various advantages which have been indicated herein, but one in which the extended portion of the wire is so disposed with relation to certain other portions of wire constituting the hook that it adds to the strength and rigidity of the hook without detracting from its neatness or compactness.

Having thus described my invention, I claim As an article of manufacture, a hook consist-ing of a single piece of wire and having thread eyes, a shank portion and a bill portion, each of which portions consists of two portions of wire arranged in parallel relation to each other, a portion of wire being extended from one of said thread eyes upwardly toward the bill of the hook to form a spring stop between the shank and the bill portions and then bent downwardly on the outside of and underneath the shank portion of the hook and thence to a point adjacent to the bill portion and being then bent downwardly and forwardly to a point intermediate and in the plane of the Wires forming the shank portion of the hook and being farther extended between and in parallel relation with portions of Wire forming the 5 hook forwardly to a point beyond the bend between the shank and bill portions.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing JAMES P. WILLIAMS.

In the presence of- CYRUS N. ANDERSON, S. SALoME BROOKE.

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